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Where to Get Your Haggis On for Burns Night

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For more than two centuries, ruddy-faced Scotchmen have been celebrating Robert Burns's birth, on January 25, 1759, in the form of Burns Night, a ritual supper of haggis &#8212; a love-it-or-hate-it highland classic consisting of a sheep&#8217;s stomach bag stuffed with ground offal and oatmeal. But of course the evening wouldn&#8217;t be complete without loud bagpipes, plenty of Scotch, and a reading of Burns&#8217;s &#8220;Address to a Haggis&#8221; upon presentation of the quivering hot bag of guts: <blockquote><em>Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!&#8230;</em></blockquote>

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Ewan McGregor won't be there — but the haggis will!Photo: Getty Images

For more than two centuries, ruddy-faced Scotchmen have been celebrating Robert Burns's birth, on January 25, 1759, in the form of Burns Night, a ritual supper of haggis — a love-it-or-hate-it highland classic consisting of a sheep’s stomach bag stuffed with ground offal and oatmeal. But of course the evening wouldn’t be complete without loud bagpipes, plenty of Scotch, and a reading of Burns’s “Address to a Haggis” upon presentation of the quivering hot bag of guts: